I think your armchair anthropology ignores the diversity of speakers and cultures in the United States. Could you share more about your methodology?
Also, the OP _is_ selling something. If you opened your eyelids slightly, you could see his mentioning of an online ‘course.’ This article is itself “content marketing” so the OP is likely fishing for customers from this HN post.
Checking OP's posting history, it appears to be all his own articles/blog posts/whatever. Yep, shameless self-promoting spammer. That's enough to guarantee I will not be reading (let alone purchasing) anything from him.
The author is missing an important point: dietary sources of cholesterol are from animal byproducts only.
> Cholesterol comes from two sources. Your liver makes all the cholesterol you need. The remainder of the cholesterol in your body comes from foods derived from animals. For example, meat, poultry and full-fat dairy products all contain cholesterol, called dietary cholesterol.
> Those same foods are high in saturated and trans fats.
I’m no expert but this is the first time I hear about this. I thought trans fats are mainly found in industrially processed (mostly vegetable) fats!
Ah, according to Wikipedia:
> Animal-based fats were once the only trans fats consumed, but by far the largest amount of trans fat consumed today is created by the processed food industry as a side effect of partially hydrogenating unsaturated plant fats (generally vegetable oils). These partially hydrogenated fats have displaced natural solid fats and liquid oils in many areas, the most notable ones being in the fast food, snack food, fried food, and baked goods industries.
So eating no fast food, no margarine and also no animals might even further reduce consumption of trans fats.
Also, the OP _is_ selling something. If you opened your eyelids slightly, you could see his mentioning of an online ‘course.’ This article is itself “content marketing” so the OP is likely fishing for customers from this HN post.